Pest control in Northwich, Middlewich and Weaverham 2010
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept working with the usual town centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen ant infestation coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant problems.
Regularly ants make nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, they eat you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814